[Peace-discuss] some things AWARE might call on the Obama adminstration to do (for Main Event, and maybe Farmer's Market)

[C. G. Estabrook]

Why make any distinction between what the current administration and the next 
may do?  Not only are the policies the same, so are the personnel.

We should be attacking the constant policy of the USG in killing people and 
waging war in the Middle East in pursuit of strategic goals in the interest of 
the American ruling elite -- and not in fact in the interest of Americans in 
general.

"US out to the Middle East" should be our demand -- along with economic justice 
here at home. And the latter can be phrased as "economic democracy." More and 
more Americans are coming to realize that they are being ripped off for the 
benefit of the few.  --CGE


Neil Parthun wrote:
> All -
> 
> First, I definitely agree that everything that needs saying in a 
> succinct way is a very difficult task.
> 
> I don't believe I was condemning actions of the Obama administration 
> here before they acted.  I tried to put it as a healthy warning of 
> "Don't do X, Y or Z." as a healthy warning after suffering eight long 
> years of idiocy, dipshititude and absolute asshattery from the Bushistas 
> in regards to foreign policy, domestic policy, et al.  My patience at 
> this point is very thin for most any politician, so I may have come off 
> a bit stern.  But when one looks at the polls and sees such 
> dissatisfaction with our government and the way the country is moving, 
> perhaps a little (okay a lot in my case) sternness is justified and 
> appropriate.  As with any President, the public needs to be 
> rabble-rousing and putting on pressure to make the President do 
> anything.  I personally do not hold out much hope for Obama to do 
> certain things, but I also see him very susceptible to the public 
> pressures inside the country.
> 
> I think this flyer assists in giving concrete things we demand from an 
> Obama administration and could educate people on what we're FOR rather 
> than what we're against.  Plus, with so much messed up in this country 
> right now, any pamphlet would be a little long. :)
> 
> Live without dead time,
>                     
>      Neil
> 
>  With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear 
> it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful because 
> that's what really happens...It's time for America to get right.
> [fannie lou hamer, 1917-1977]
> 
> Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some 
> blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. 
> Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a 
> spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
> [ralph waldo emerson, 1803-1882]
> 
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